朝霧の八重山越えて霍公鳥
卯の花辺から鳴きて越え来ぬ
卯の花辺から鳴きて越え来ぬ
- Roma-ji
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Asagiri no yaeyama koete hototogisu unohanabe kara nakite koekinu
- English Translation
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Through the morning mist
over mountains, fold on fold,
hototogisu
by the unohana's side
singing, has come crossing here.
- Meaning
- Crossing the many-layered mountains in the morning mist, the hototogisu has come this way, singing, by way of the deutzia blossoms.
- Commentary
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Book Ten Summer Miscellaneous Poems 1945
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Birds"
This poem sings of the hototogisu that has come over range upon range of mountains in the morning mist, passing by where the deutzia blooms and singing as it arrives. The freshness of an early summer morning and the joy of welcoming the hototogisu come through. It shares its upper lines with 1941, and against the loneliness of the calling bird crying with no lodging, this poem sings of the brightness of the hototogisu crossing through the deutzia, in contrast to it.
The first line, "of the morning mist," is the same opening as 1941.
The second line, "crossing the many-fold mountains," is the same as in 1941.
The third line, "hototogisu," is the subject, replacing the "calling bird" of 1941.
In the fourth line, "unohanabe kara," "kara" marks the route: by way of the deutzia.
In the last line, "nakite koekinu," "nu" marks completion, closing with joy at the bird's arrival.
- Source
- Manyoshu
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Fujinami no chiramaku oshimi hototogisu imaki no oka o nakite koyu nari
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Kodakaku wa katsute ki ueji hototogisu kinaki toyomete koi masarashimu